Button.



- No. 854,233. I I PATENTED MAY 21 1907.

- w. s. osno'm BUTTON..

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1906.

V 3 vwznfoz NITE sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

WINFIELD SCOTT OSBORN, OF REMINGTON, INDIANA, ASSIQNOR OF ONE- HALF TO 0. W. LITTLEFIELD, OF. REMINGTON, INDIANA.

BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mayer, 1907.

Application filed June 1, 1906. Serial No. 319,794.

. clear, and exact description of the invention,

such as'will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in buttons and more particularly to that class adapted to be secured to trousers and my object is to provide a button which may be readily and quickly attached to the trousers without sewing the same.

A further object is looking the several parts of the button together.

A still further object is to provide means for releasing the button, whereby the same may be removed from the trousers.

Other objects and. advantages WlllbG hereinafter referred to and more clearly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings which are made apart of this application andin which I have shown my preferred form of construction. Figure 1 1s a central sectional view through the .button and showing the button applied to use. Fig. 2 is a sectional view as seen from line 22 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view showing the locking mechanism. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the securing stem, and Fig. 5 is an inverted perspective view of the releasing device.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views 1 indioates the body of my. improved button to the outward edge of which is secured a cover 2 said body and ooverforming a housing for the centrally disposed tubular socket 3, the free end of said socket being out at an obtuse angle While. the opposite end thereof is disposed through an openinglin the bottom of the body 1 and is held t erein in any preferred manner. adapted to receive the stem 4 of the securing device, said stem being"'integral with the base 5, said base being at one end of said stem While "the opposite end d is conical. A cireumferential groove 7 is'dls'posed around the stem 4'in juxtaposition to the conical end 0 i to provide means for The tubular socket 3 is- 6, the object of said groove being to receive a locking device 8 disposed in the body 1.

This locking device is preferably triangular in shape and. having the apex thereof disposed against the wall of the body 1 and the base thereof enteredin a slot 9 in the tubular socket 3 so that when the stem 4 is directed into said socket the base of the locking device 8 will be seated in the groove 7 and thereby prevent the casual removal of the stem.

In order to release the stem 4 from the locking device 8 I have provided a cupshaped releasing member 10, said member being disposed over the end of the tubular socket 3 and normally rests upon the pointed 'end thereof, said member being provided on opposite sides with depending fingers 11 one on eachside ofthe tubular socket which are adapted to extend into the path of the base of the locking device 8 so that when the member 10 is depressed the fingers will engage the base of the locking device 8 and direct the same outwardly in the slot 9 until the stem 4 has been released, when said stem may be readilyremoved from the tubular socket 3 and 'the button removed from the garment.

In order to prevent the member 10 from casual displacement from the tubular member 3 I have provided a projecting arm 12 at one side thereof, said arm being adapted to contact the inner surface of the cover 2 and thereby prevent tilting of the member 10 in one direction. To gain access to the cupshaped member 10 I have provided a circular opening 13 in the cover 2 through which is adapted to. extend a portion of the member 10 and thereby dispose said member in a position to be tilted upon the member 3.

In operation the stem 4 is inserted throu h the garment 14 until the base 5 engages t e inner surface of the garment after which the tubular member 3 is disposed over the protruding end of the stem 4 and the base of the locking device 8 seated in the groove 7 thereby securing' the button to the garment. If

for any reason, as when the garment is Worn 1 1 into engagement. with the base of the lock- ,IOS

.the slot 9 the action of'the-fingers '11 upon the base 8, when the member 10 is depressed,

will give an upward as Well as outward movement to the base'an'd in order to prevent undue wear upon the base by engaging the walls, of the slot '9 the angle of said slot is I made substantially the same as the angle of 1the'up 'er end of the tubular member which is pre erably disposed at an angle of 45- I thereby permitting the base to freely leave the slot Without undue wear and giving the cup-shaped member room to swing upon the point of the tubular member without engaggmg other parts thereof.

I 1. A button of the class described comthe mem er, a cover at I clann'isz' I v prising a body, a 'tubularmember in said ody, the upper end of which is disposed at an angle to the axis of the ;member, said member having a slot therein at an, angle. to

the axis of the tubular member" and at the same an 1e as the anfg o the up er'end of opening therein, a stem havinga circumfer- -ential groove, a base on said stem and means adapted-to engage the groove in'said'stem to removably lock said bod on the stem".

2.-A button of the e ass describejd comprising the combination-With a/s'tem having 'a con1cal end and a circumferential groove and a base secured thereto of abody,1 a tubular socket in said body having itsu per end disposed at an angle to the axis 0 the socket,;said socket having a slot therein at an angle to the axis of the soeketfand at the same angle as the angle at the upper. end of le f r said body avin'g an.

the socket, a locking device disposed'in said body and having one portion thereof extending into said slot whereby when saidstem' is disposed in said tubular socket, said locking device will engage the'groove, a cover for said body havingan o ening therein and means to disengage saidocking device from the groove.

33A button of the classdescribed com-' prising the combination with a stem, a base at one end of said stem, said stem havin -a groove near the op osite end thereof; '0 a ody, a tubular soc et in;said body having itsfree end disposed at an angle to its axis, a

device disposed in said body, a porereof entering a slot in the tubular lockin tion tl i member, a cover for said body, said cover having an opening therein, a releasing member in said body and resting on the apex of the angular end of said tubular member, means carried by said member to en age the locking device when tilted and a ditional. means-to limit the movement of said releasing member in one direction.

4. A buttonyof the class described comprising the combination with'a stem havin aconical end and a groove near said ,conica end; of a body, a cover for said body, a

socket in said body having itsupper end dis-;

posed at an angle to its axis, a locking member in theboriy, the base'of which is adapted to enter a slot in saidfsocket, a releasing member in said body and depending'arms integral with said member .-ada' ted to' be swung into engagement with sai base when Q the member is depressed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to. this specification in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

WIN IELD SCOTT 'OSBORN. Witnesses:

CHARLES W. LITTLEFIELD, E. BESSER. 

